Spotify introduced redesigned apps across the desktop, Web and iOS on Wednesday that feature a new, darker user interface. The fonts have been refreshed, and the icons for bands and album are have all been roundednot unlike emerging rival Beats Music.

The U.S. government masterminded the creation of a "Cuban Twitter"  a communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba, built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks, The Associated Press has learned.